Three ways Canada can navigate an increasingly erratic and belligerent United States

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How political influencers avoid election rules, transparency and consequences

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Humanoid home robots are on the market – but do we really want them?

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Alberta confident on carbon pricing deal as minister announces $28 million for clean tech

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Snowball Earth wasn’t fully frozen: ice-free oases sheltered early life

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RNA is key to the dark matter of the genome − scientists are sequencing it to illuminate human health and disease

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Living in space can change where your brain sits in your skull – new research

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Swarms of AI bots can sway people’s beliefs – threatening democracy

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Replacing humans with machines is leaving truckloads of food stranded and unusable

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Five ways quantum technology could shape everyday life

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Can blockchain help track and reduce global supply chain emissions?

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What Ottawa can do to protect Canadians from cybercrime

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ChatGPT is in classrooms. How should educators now assess student learning?

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Fears about TikTok’s policy changes point to a deeper problem in the tech industry

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The numbers show just how tough this winter has been

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News sites are locking out the Internet Archive to stop AI crawling. Is the ‘open web’ closing?

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I studied 10 years of Instagram posts. Here’s how social media has changed

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An ‘AI afterlife’ is now a real option – but what becomes of your legal status?

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The healing power of poisonous plants

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Does the exodus to UpScrolled signify the end of TikTok?

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Repeal the Online News Act to better inform Canadians

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Does adding ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ to your ChatGPT prompts really waste energy?

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Beneath Antarctica’s largest ice shelf, a hidden ocean is revealing its secrets

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Why Modern Fintechs Are Switching to a Payments Orchestration Platform in 2026

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Métis Nation must be partners in developing artificial intelligence

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Indian Head Research farm closing due to federal cutbacks

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Is AI hurting your ability to think? How to reclaim your brain

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Moore’s law: the famous rule of computing has reached the end of the road, so what comes next?

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Proposed new mission will create artificial solar eclipses in space

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OpenAI will put ads in ChatGPT. This opens a new door for dangerous influence

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Canada’s AI strategy stops at city limits

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Europe wants to end its dangerous reliance on US internet technology

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Will Google be third time lucky with new, AI-powered smart glasses?

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Microsoft’s AI deal promises Canada digital sovereignty, but is that a pledge it can keep?

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Canada can lead the world in sovereign, sustainable, responsible AI

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AI disruptions reveal the folly of clinging to an idealized modern university

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World-first social media wargame reveals how AI bots can swing elections

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Wormholes may not exist – we’ve found they reveal something deeper about time and the universe

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Reports of ‘AI psychosis’ are emerging — here’s what a psychiatric clinician has to say

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Could ChatGPT convince you to buy something? Threat of manipulation looms as AI companies gear up to sell ads

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How astronomers plan to detect the signatures of alien life in the atmospheres of distant planets

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Humanoid robots or human connection? What Elon Musk’s Optimus reveals about our AI ambitions

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Chemistry is stuck in the dark ages – ‘chemputation’ can bring it into the digital world

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People are getting their news from AI – and it’s altering their views

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AI agents arrived in 2025 – here’s what happened and the challenges ahead in 2026

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What actually is fire? A physicist explains

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Local mineral could help farmers improve soil health

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Can Government Efforts to Regulate AI in the Workplace Make a Difference?

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The Cloud We Live In

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Solid-State Batteries: The Bet Promising to Change Electric Vehicles

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Deepfakes leveled up in 2025 – here’s what’s coming next

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Why mangoes fall before they’re ripe – and how science is helping them hang on

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How can Canada become a global AI powerhouse? By investing in mathematics

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No, your brain doesn’t suddenly ‘fully develop’ at 25. Here’s what the neuroscience actually shows

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What the hyperproduction of AI slop is doing to science

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Some words affect us more than others. It boils down to how they sound

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Teenagers are preparing for the jobs of 25 years ago – and schools are missing the AI revolution

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For solution to AI’s energy crisis, look at the human brain

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Australia’s national plan says existing laws are enough to regulate AI. This is false hope

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Why do we wake up shortly before our alarm goes off? It’s not by chance

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What is super flu? And other questions answered

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Rage bait: the psychology behind social media’s angriest posts

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Nasa robot rover shows that sparks fly in dust storms on Mars

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Premier League football matches can be crime hotspots – but community sports centres have the opposite effect

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Google is relying on its own chips for its AI system Gemini. Here’s why that’s a seismic change for the industry

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Data centres in space: will 2027 really be the year AI goes to orbit?

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It’s not you – some typefaces feel different

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AI promises efficiency, but it’s also amplifying labour inequality

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What are small language models and how do they differ from large ones?

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Australia’s national AI plan has just been released. Who exactly will benefit?

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56 million years ago, the Earth suddenly heated up – and many plants stopped working properly

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Could a national, public ‘CanGPT’ be Canada’s answer to ChatGPT?

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How digital twins will enable the next generation of precision agriculture

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How ‘digital twins’ could help prevent cyber-attacks on the food industry

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Nature’s greatest method actors: the insects that cosplay bumblebees

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AI is making spacecraft propulsion more efficient – and could even lead to nuclear-powered rockets

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The ChatGPT effect: In 3 years the AI chatbot has changed the way people look things up

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India’s new rules to tackle deepfakes look good, but are hard to put in action

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AI in journalism and democracy: Can we rely on it?

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AI chatbots are encouraging conspiracy theories – new research

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What the Canadian government is missing on AI

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What do we know about climate change? How do we know it? And where are we headed?

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We can’t ban AI, but we can build the guardrails to prevent it from going off the tracks

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AI-induced psychosis: the danger of humans and machines hallucinating together

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Is the AI bubble about to burst? What to watch for as the markets wobble

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Physicists and philosophers have long struggled to understand the nature of time: Here’s why

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Silent cyber threats: How shadow AI could undermine Canada’s digital health defences

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Federal budget 2025: Is Canada Strong actually weak on AI?

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The AI boom feels eerily similar to 2000’s dotcom crash – with some important differences

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How do ‘AI detection’ tools actually work? And are they effective?

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We asked teachers about their experiences with AI in the classroom — here’s what they said

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New global research shows eye movements reveal how native languages shape reading

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Why people don’t demand data privacy – even as governments and corporations collect more personal information

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Always watching: How ICE’s plan to monitor social media 24/7 threatens privacy and civic participation

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The ‘doorman fallacy’: why careless adoption of AI backfires so easily

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Australia is facing an ‘AI divide’, new national survey shows

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Hundreds of genes act differently in the brains of men and women

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How AI is challenging the credibility of some online courses

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Can you treat a narcissist?

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Why do some of us love AI, while others hate it? The answer is in how our brains perceive risk and trust

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New Nasa lunar contest could pit Elon Musk against Jeff Bezos, as US fears China will win race to Moon

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US officials praise Canada on wildfires but ignore climate at Toronto G7 meeting

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Cybersecurity Meets Sustainability. Responsible Digital Hygiene for Mac Users

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The right way for Canada to secure cloud sovereignty

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What’s the difference between passwords and passkeys? It’s not just the protection they provide

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OpenAI’s Atlas browser promises ultimate convenience. But the glossy marketing masks safety risks

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The hardest part of creating conscious AI might be convincing ourselves it’s real

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OpenAI slipped shopping into 800 million ChatGPT users’ chats − here’s why that matters

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Why does putting back the clocks an hour disrupt us so much?

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Humans have an internal lunar clock – but light pollution is disrupting it

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Canada’s health data is flowing abroad while Ottawa stalls on AI rules

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How to ensure youth, parents, educators and tech companies are on the same page on AI

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Peel public health warns of rising disease infection cases

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What is AI poisoning? A computer scientist explains

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AI heavyweights call for end to ‘superintelligence’ research

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A ‘digital twin’ of your brain could predict mental health issues, and slow cognitive decline

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AI systems and humans ‘see’ the world differently – and that’s why AI images look so garish

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Could your walk be a signal about your ability to win a fight?

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How generative AI could change how we think and speak

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Canada’s AI ambitions depend on energy security and critical resources

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Concerns about AI-written police reports spur states to regulate the emerging practice

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AI literacy: What it is, what it isn’t, who needs it and why it’s hard to define

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Almost 75,000 farmed salmon in Scotland escaped into the wild after Storm Amy – why this may cause lasting damage

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AI weapons are dangerous in war. But saying they can’t be held accountable misses the point

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AI, drone ships and new sensors could leave submarines with few places to hide in the ocean

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OpenAI’s newly launched Sora 2 makes AI’s environmental impact impossible to ignore

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What’s the difference between moths and butterflies? Look at their antennae

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Canada’s next great project must be to build an AI nation

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YouTube shapes young people’s political education, but the site simplifies complex issues

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‘Spooky action at a distance’ – a beginner’s guide to quantum entanglement and why it matters in the real world

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The American TikTok deal doesn’t address the platform’s potential for manipulation, only who profits

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We teach young people to write. In the age of AI, we must teach them how to see

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As the UK plans to introduce digital IDs, what can it learn from pioneer Estonia?

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The warning signs are clear: We’re heading toward a digital crisis

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Social media age restrictions may go further than you thought. Here’s how

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AI systems can easily lie and deceive us – a fact researchers are painfully aware of

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AI is creating fake legal cases and making its way into real courtrooms, with disastrous results

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AI use by UK justice system risks papering over the cracks caused by years of underfunding

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How researchers are making precision agriculture more affordable

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Bill C-4 privacy enhancements are modest and fail to regulate politicians’ use of social bot

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Go or Stay? Hurricane Evacuation Triggers and Local Alerts

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Digital ‘nudges’ to online consumers can promote public interest

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How AI-based eye scans can detect high blood sugar, heart disease

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Canada needs a national strategy for generative AI in higher education

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Trust in government a key factor in acceptance of greater federal use of AI

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TikTok sale puts app’s algorithm in the spotlight – a social media expert explains how the For You Page works and what changes are in store

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A volcano or a meteorite? New evidence sheds light on puzzling discovery in Greenland’s ice sheet

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Generative AI and deeper thinking: What’s in our heads still matters*

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Scams and frauds: Here are the tactics criminals use on you in the age of AI and cryptocurrencies

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How a fly sees the world – and why understanding its vision can help prevent disease

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Earth’s inner core: nobody knows exactly what it’s made of – now we’ve started to uncover the truth

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Why OpenAI’s solution to AI hallucinations would kill ChatGPT tomorrow

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When robots are integrated into household spaces and rituals, they acquire emotional value

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Social media is teaching children how to use AI. How can teachers keep up?

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When the government can see everything: How one company – Palantir – is mapping the nation’s data

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Our understanding of lightning has been driven by fear and shaped by curiosity

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ChatGPT only talks in cliches – here’s why that’s a threat to human creativity

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How environmental RNA can give us a real-time picture of freshwater biodiversity

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Digital platforms are now the ultimate political power brokers, with consequences for democracy

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Teachers are key to students’ AI literacy, and need support

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We drilled deep under the sea to learn more about mega-earthquakes and tsunamis

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White mold fungi split their genome across several nuclei, with implications for future gene editing

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From fear to fluency: what our students learned when they used AI across an entire course

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What’s a ‘black moon’? Here’s why it’s worth looking up at the sky this week

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The rise of humanlike chatbots detracts from developing AI for the human good

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What, exactly, is space-time?

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Managing soil fertilization levels can make for more efficient and productive crops

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Part of your brain gets bigger as you get older – here is what that means for you

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Humans keep building robots that are shaped like us – what’s the point?

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A humanoid robot is now on sale for under US$6,000 – what can you do with it?

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Laws are introduced globally to reduce ‘psychological harm’ online – but there’s no clear definition of what it is

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How machine learning can help discover anti-hepatitis C drugs

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GPT-5: has AI just plateaued?

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Premier League: from red success to grey failure – how kit colours appear to impact performance

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From sanctuary to shipping lane: LNG Canada tankers threaten BC’s whale haven

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As the status quo shifts, we’re becoming more forgiving when algorithms mess up

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Nature’s underground engineers: how plant roots could save harvests from drought

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Why on Earth is the planet’s day getting shorter?

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Harnessing technology for early warnings on earthquakes

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Canadian businesses need a new government approach to cybercrime

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Meet ‘lite intermediate black holes,’ the supermassive black hole’s smaller, much more mysterious cousin

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Psychedelic drug DMT and near death experiences have long been linked – my study is the first to explore the connection in depth

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A company says it could turn mercury into gold using nuclear fusion. Can we take this claim seriously?

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The hunt for ‘planet nine’: why there could still be something massive at the edge of the Solar System

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Canada could use thermal infrastructure to turn wasted heat emissions into energy

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Cubic zirconia only forms under extreme temperatures, like those produced when an asteroid impacts Earth

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Maximizing Emerging Trends in Locally Led AI Solutions for Climate Action

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Fraser River feels the burn: Wildfires spiking pollutants and altering ocean carbon

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AI might now be as good as humans at detecting emotion, political leaning and sarcasm in online conversations

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What happens to your brain when you watch videos online at faster speeds than normal

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AI-powered assistive technologies are changing how we experience and imagine public space

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Moon mining is getting closer to reality: Why we need global rules for extracting space resources

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Plankton can investigate crime, affect the climate and influence science

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WhatsApp introducing advertising is a potentially lucrative but risky move

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Here’s why the public needs to challenge the ‘good AI’ myth pushed by tech companies

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AI applications are producing cleaner cities, smarter homes and more efficient transit

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Could trees know when the summer solstice is?

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Air India crash: what do we know about the Boeing 787 Dreamliner involved? Expert Q&A

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Navigating privacy and transparency in the digital age

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Chatbots can help clinicians become better communicators, and this could boost vaccine uptake

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